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The Scarlet Pimpernel vocabulary
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remonstrate
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synonyms: expostulate ???
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Definition:to make a forceful protest
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He [...] drew out some thirty dollars in silver; then spreading them on the table, and mechanically dividing them into two equal portions, pushed one of them towards me, and said it was mine. I was going to remonstrate; but he silenced me by pouring them into my trowsers' pockets. I let them stay.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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We wish to make it a voice of remonstrance against placing any of those morally defective books called Bibles in the hands of the ignorant and impressible heathen, or the children of Christian countries, until their minds become sufficiently fortified by age and experience to resist or withstand the demoralizing influence of their bad precepts and bad examples as exposed in this work.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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“All those top-knots must be cut off.”
Miss Temple seemed to remonstrate.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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"You expected," said Miss Havisham, as she looked them over, "no premium with the boy?"
"Joe!" I remonstrated, for he made no reply at all. "Why don't you answer—"
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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In the beginning of spring she had the garden turned up from end to end, despite Bovary's remonstrances. However, he was glad to see her at last manifest a wish of any kind.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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There was a long, nagging argument that went round and round, with shouts, whines, tears, remonstrances, bargainings.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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The tin dishes were packed away unwashed. Mercedes continually fluttered in the way of her men and kept up an unbroken chattering of remonstrance and advice.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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Two or three times he came up to me and deliberately kicked my shins. He hurt me once so much that the tears came into my eyes. I gently remonstrated with him, and Mrs. James said: “Please don’t scold him; I do not believe in being too severe with young children. You spoil their character.”
George and Weedon Grossmith. The Diary of a Nobody (1882)
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it would be inadvisable to remonstrate. Therefore Theodore Racksole continued his perambulations unchallenged,
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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